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US Panel Backs Bill Targeting Internet Censorship

A House Foreign Affairs panel approved legislation on Tuesday that seeks to bar U.S. companies from helping foreign countries in trying to censor the Internet or monitor their citizens' Internet or mobile communications.

The legislation approved by the Africa, Global Health and Human Rights Subcommittee would require the State Department to identify by name in its annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices the countries that restrict access to the Internet. It also would bar U.S. firms from exporting to these countries hardware or software that could be used to spy on or censor citizens.http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/03/panel-backs-bill-targeting-int.php